itt: paintings that are plot-points in movies and TV that are terrible paintings (or excellent ones if there are any)

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futher evidence of data's crimes against art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogFxgtsypBc

the case for the defence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-iFOEOgIM

Paperbag raita (ledge), Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:00 (six years ago)

things i've been hunting for meanwhile = wall art in 50s and 60s cartoons, esp.the hubleys at UPA

mark s, Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:00 (six years ago)

Here to show critical support for Data's artworks!

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:46 (six years ago)

Re: action painting there is one depiction of it in Pasolini's Teorema.

I can't remember what the painting in Quince Tree Sun looks like :-( Want to think it's good because I liked the film so much.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:49 (six years ago)

jean luc picart

ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:43 (six years ago)

again def not plot point but always liked this discovery - https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/11/stuart-little-leads-to-lost-painting

johnny crunch, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:44 (six years ago)

Is there action painting in one of the original Bedazzled vignettes with Eleanor Bron? Feel like there is but can't be arsed to Google.

GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:45 (six years ago)

Or like I could've confused it with If..... or somethink

GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:45 (six years ago)

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EMjd-S0Zd8s/Ux5mW6_nssI/AAAAAAAACZU/EqofiIjkryU/s1600/732_2.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:55 (six years ago)

https://rjamahoney.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ba-1.png?w=600&h=338

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:59 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/tQ1mqX2.png

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:04 (six years ago)

There's probably a ton of terrible paintings in Velvet Buzzsaw but I am not going to seek them out.

Paperbag raita (ledge), Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:33 (six years ago)

So why do film people hate painting so much? Static visual art is only a bit boring leave it alone lol.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 14:38 (six years ago)

we dont hate it we love it u buffoon

mark s, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:15 (six years ago)

Film people = the ppl that make films not ppl posting on the thread. Just wondering out loud why the paintings are mostly bad.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:21 (six years ago)

ah yes that's a key question -- there was a special sight and sound supplement on this topic ("art in movies") when i worked there, i shd dig out out and see if it's better than this thread (it won't be)

it's probably 30 yrs since i watched this (i didn't like it then):
https://anotherimg-dazedgroup.netdna-ssl.com/900/azure/another-prod/350/4/354103.jpg

mark s, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:27 (six years ago)

Dali for Spellbound

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7G6jzvD0s10/WWXMJQ9UbHI/AAAAAAAAZv0/3mZUXHjNwtwjnICzYwnWkdSAUFRuNBK6wCLcBGAs/s1600/spellbound-1945-dream-salvador-dali.jpg

by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:28 (six years ago)

The House on the Corner (I'll Never Forget You), 18th c. painting bears striking resemblance to Tyrone Power:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-foQGhoev1cM/UiS3iaTjAXI/AAAAAAAAJdc/E0MfGXfRGPY/s1600/11.JPG

by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:33 (six years ago)

Okay which movie am I trying to remember that features a scene where someone is perhaps getting torn apart/murdered and they're screaming - whilst the camera flashes to a series of paintings on a wall where the portraits just look on in nonchalance
?

Ste, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:11 (six years ago)

(it's possible the 'victim' was maybe just having sex instead)

Ste, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:14 (six years ago)

http://getdrawings.com/image/the-real-rose-drawing-from-titanic-60.jpg

omar little, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:27 (six years ago)

https://i.stack.imgur.com/1sGiY.jpg

omar little, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:30 (six years ago)

http://dailygrindhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Live-and-Die.jpg

omar little, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:31 (six years ago)

Ste are you thinking of bad timing? various kilmt paintings act as quasi-voyeurs to everything that happens to theresa russell (which doesn't include her murder but does include an emergency operation to save her life depicted as a brutal bodily invasion)

mark s, Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:05 (six years ago)

https://i.stack.imgur.com/6tJle.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 February 2020 07:14 (six years ago)

(there are so many Napoleon Soprano w/Pie-Oh-My knock offs out there...)

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 February 2020 07:15 (six years ago)

Art School Confidential may be meh, but the bad art is fantastically bad

https://i1.netflixmovies.com/dibsl9ebc/image/upload/w_1920,h_800,c_fill,g_faces,q_62/u5xckpeocl1if7qniwiz.jpg

http://somamagazine.com/site/wp-content/uploads/Art-school.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 February 2020 07:17 (six years ago)

Mark, I might be thinking of Trading Places when Dan Aykroyd is arrested in the chambers. Didn't they cut to the shots of paintings on the wall of past chairmen or something looking on in disgust?

Ste, Friday, 7 February 2020 10:33 (six years ago)

i think there might be a TP scene where snooty old portrait people look on in disdain but i don't think anyone gets dismembered (or even has sex onscreen)!

mark s, Friday, 7 February 2020 10:36 (six years ago)

haha yeah i got that bit way off

Ste, Friday, 7 February 2020 10:37 (six years ago)

just reporting that the painting scenes in Portait of a Lady on Fire are probably quite as realistically formulaic and unremarkable as the work of an 18th century society portraitist would be, well with the caveat that I fell asleep halfway through and will catch up on "episode 2" tonight!

calzino, Friday, 7 February 2020 10:53 (six years ago)

https://media0.giphy.com/media/VdEphHnbfxOqNrJZwn/source.gif

Captain ACAB (Neil S), Friday, 7 February 2020 10:57 (six years ago)

12 monkeys
https://www.tvequals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/12-Monkeys-Syfy-Mentally-Divergent-Episode-2-18.jpg

andrew m., Friday, 7 February 2020 14:44 (six years ago)

(in the book eustace is further docked aslan kiss-ass points bcz he correctly prefers modern art to bad narnian hyperrealism)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-vFCM6H4U

mark s, Friday, 7 February 2020 14:54 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNPy9TU4kq0

(includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Friday, 7 February 2020 15:20 (six years ago)

http://paintingsinmovies.com/ir/5/344.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 15:36 (six years ago)

I just found this site:

http://paintingsinmovies.com/m/main

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 15:37 (six years ago)

How'd we miss this one?
http://paintingsinmovies.com/ir/5/304.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 15:39 (six years ago)

there's also an "art in the movies" blog: https://artinthemovies.wordpress.com/

(but i'd prefer ppl contribute things they themselves know or remember or have a relationship than just raid other ppl's lists!) (tho by all means use these places to remind yrself of such relationships)

mark s, Friday, 7 February 2020 15:54 (six years ago)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/85/a3/6e85a33f117354628e592ae3ff8b4012.gif

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 16:11 (six years ago)

https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/KikiAndUrsula-740x405.jpg

jmm, Friday, 7 February 2020 16:15 (six years ago)

just reporting that the painting scenes in Portait of a Lady on Fire are probably quite as realistically formulaic and unremarkable as the work of an 18th century society portraitist would be, well with the caveat that I fell asleep halfway through and will catch up on "episode 2" tonight!

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Lol oh no watching that next week

xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 February 2020 16:17 (six years ago)

I didn't mean it was boring or bad.. I was rather tired and it was late.

calzino, Friday, 7 February 2020 17:01 (six years ago)


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